The Old Hack

His mistake. He should have tried with lemons.

I agree, but the question was whether political slays were permissible and where they should go, so I thought I should answer that. And I really liked that slay. It got even funnier when I inserted Danish politics in the first thought bubble. "It's across the Atlantic -- Canada may be far enough away!"

*facepalm* Great.

Eh, make the most of it

Um. How do you figure? I visualised Moperville as being a funnel for magic flowing in from everywhere else -- like an indentation in the terrain, as it were -- and the clog as being a blockage that kept magic from dropping out through the bottom of the funnel. When was a specific source of magic mentioned?

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Pffft. Liquid helium is where it's at.

Awwww

I dunno. Possibly if it is one of the new Airbus 340 models. Probably not if it is a Boeing or an older generation Airbus. If it is a McDonnell Douglas, it's a bit of a tossup. But I'd say yes if it is an MD-11.

I don't think she gives a dam.

Oooh! Oooh! I know which one! This piece!

Catalina plan: sneak into sports store, get rappelling rope and gear, go to roof of mall, wait for helicopter to pass, attach rope to helicopter, get lifted away, unnoticedly climb rope, wait for helicopter to land, sneak off helicopter pad... Did I forget something?

It did at that.

Fair enough, and it isn't as if any of us really wish the company any ill, I think. We are just marveling at how things happen in the business world.

If they are like politicians I wouldn't bet my shoes on it. Just one Danish politician I can think of cost his constituency almost half a billion dollars, and he wasn't particularly reliable. And given that the municipality he came from consisted of just 20.000 people, that means he cost his citizens nearly 25.000 dollars each. Not really worth it at the price. Admittedly he ran that up over the course of some twelve years, so they only got cheated of some two thousand dollars per head per year. Even so, they still didn't want to re-elect him once they found out. People are so ungrateful.

It hasn't stopped running ever since it escaped.

I am not sure if this counts, but here follows what my players voted the least impressive threat ever made: We were playing a game of Vampire: the Masquerade and my players were gatecrashing a Setite drug orgy. The putative host of the party was a hapless mortal who was totally in the claws of his Setite master and in a drugged stupor at the time. But as the PCs went through the party, killing the guards and flattening the Setite's ghouls and other servants, it gradually dawned on the poor dope that something wasn't quite right with his party. At length, after the battle had gone on for several turns, he drew himself up as much as he could (not very) and told the player characters: "Hey, you... you there! If you don't immediately stop... whatever it is you're doing... I know someone who probably thinks he is really something!" Needless to say, this fearsome declaration utterly failed to make the player characters collapse into abject terror.

By no means. mlooney appointed her that.

I think it is way too late for me. My boot disk got corrupted ages ago and the hand crank for restarts rusted shut before the turn of the millennium.

Bollocking Immortal kids running around making trouble *muttermuttergrumble* Get them off me lawn *grumblegrumble*

Not at all. I said like the hammers, not the same as the hammers. My hypothetical artifact-making Immortal could have been of any Immortal age between, say, 30 and 150. My postulated charts artifact might still be good for a century. Or it might expire in a week. Who knows, I was just hypothesizing.

I find it at least conceivable that they are half sisters. It does not strike me as unrealistic that Susan's father already cheated on his wife around the time Susan was conceived, and it would also provide a possible explanation for why Diane was adopted -- her mother handed her over to adoption services because she didn't want to or couldn't take care of a baby alone.

My own guess is that they are actually like the hammers used to be. Some Immortal got involved in that management book craze that flared up a while back and loved it so much that he made a charts and tables artifact that works similarly to the hammer artifact. And anyone that knows the trick can conjure charts for whatever they want to talk about simply by waving a pointer, asking for attention and looking stern.

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